Psychiatric Nursing - Important question

Important question – Psychiatric Nursing – for RUHS exam

1. Define Mental Health Nursing. Write down the principal of MHN. Describe the standard of MHN.
2. Define mental health and illness. write down the characteristics of mentally healthy person. What are the causes of mental illness?
3. Define substance abuse. Classify psychoactive substances. Write the management and Nursing Care plan of patients suffering with ADS.
4. Define schizophrenia. write down the type of schizophrenia. explain in detail about hebephrenic schizophrenia and prepare a Nursing care plan.
5. Explain different therapeutic modalities used in Nursing.
6. Explain the role of a Nurse in rehabilitation of mentally retarded children.
7. Discuss the role of Nurses in the National Mental Health Programme.
8. Define Anxiety Neurosis. List signs and symptoms of anxiety neurosis. discuss the use of behavior therapy in management of anxiety neurosis.
9. Differentiate the following
1. Functional psychosis vs organic psychosis
2. Delirium Vs Dementia
3. Psychosis Vs Neurosis
4. Illusion vs Hallucination
5. Mental Health vs Mental Illness
10. Define mood disorder. write down the major depressive disorder. Explain the management of clients with mood disorder.
11. Define the term psychiatric emergencies. explain the role of psychiatric nurse in managing psychiatric emergencies.
12. Define behavior therapy and explain its technique.
13. Define defense mechanism and discuss various defense mechanism.
14. Define therapeutic communication. Describe the technique of therapeutic communication. Discuss the therapeutic impasses and its intervention.
15. Explain the admission and discharge procedure of a mentally ill client in detail.
16. Describe the term obsessive compulsive disorder. Discuss the etiology, Sign & symptoms, Medical and behavioral management as well as nursing care plan of OCD.
17. Shorts notes –
1. Crisis and its intervention
2. Techniques of counseling
3. Mental retardation
4. Bulimia nervosa
5. Phases of NPR
6. Mental health Act 1987 /Mental health care Act 2017
7. Concept of normal and abnormal behavior
8. Johari window
9. ECT
10. Biofeedback therapy
11. Relaxation technique
12. Therapeutic community
13. Behavior therapy
14. First rank symptom
15. Positive and negative symptom of schizophrenia
16. Bleuler’s 4A
17. Phobia
18. Conversion disorder
19. Borderline Personality disorder (RUHS Jan 2018)
20. Intelligent quotient
21. ADHD
22. Juvenile delinquencies
23. Grief
24. Level of preventive Psychiatry
25. Rights of mentally ill client
26. Coping mechanism
27. Techniques of Counseling
28. EPS (Extrapyramidal symptom)
29. PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder)
30. Mental health services